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When the National Security Agency recruited me, they put me through a day of lie detector tests. They found out all my weaknesses and immediately seduced me. They used the strongest drugs in our...

Author: John Perkins (1945) | Theme: Nation | Clicks: 150 | Rank: 0 | Fav

We knew Saudi Arabia was the key to dropping our dependency, or to controlling the situation. And we worked out this deal whereby the Royal House of Saud agreed to send most of their petro-dollars...

Author: John Perkins (1945) | Theme: Miscellaneous | Clicks: 150 | Rank: 0 | Fav

This empire, unlike any other in the history of the world, has been built primarily through economic manipulation, through cheating, through fraud, through seducing people into our way of life,...

Author: John Perkins (1945) | Theme: History | Clicks: 161 | Rank: 0 | Fav

These were big ones, those companies would then go in and build an electrical system or ports or highways, and these would basically serve just a few of the very wealthiest families in those...

Author: John Perkins (1945) | Theme: Miscellaneous | Clicks: 124 | Rank: 0 | Fav

There's no question in my mind that it was C.I.A. sanctioned, and most many Latin American investigators have come to the same conclusion. Of course, we never heard about that in our country.

Author: John Perkins (1945) | Theme: Mind | Clicks: 141 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The Treasury Department would use the interest from these securities to hire U.S. companies to build Saudi Arabia new cities, new infrastructure which we've done.

Author: John Perkins (1945) | Theme: Miscellaneous | Clicks: 103 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The poor people in those countries would be stuck ultimately with this amazing debt that they couldn't possibly repay. A country today like Ecuador owes over fifty percent of its national budget...

Author: John Perkins (1945) | Theme: People | Clicks: 151 | Rank: 0 | Fav

The only way that we're going to feel secure in this country again and that we're going to feel good about ourselves is if we use these systems we've put into place to create positive change around...

Author: John Perkins (1945) | Theme: Country | Clicks: 202 | Rank: 0 | Fav

So we make this big loan, most of it comes back to the United States, the country is left with the debt plus lots of interest, and they basically become our servants, our slaves. It's an empire....

Author: John Perkins (1945) | Theme: Miscellaneous | Clicks: 119 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Saddam Hussein's bodyguards were too good. He had doubles. They couldn't get through to him. So the third line of defense, if the economic hit men and the jackals fail, the next line of defense is...

Author: John Perkins (1945) | Theme: Opinion | Clicks: 158 | Rank: 0 | Fav

I worked very, very closely with the World Bank, the World Bank provides most of the money that's used by economic hit men, it and the I.M.F.

Author: John Perkins (1945) | Theme: Work | Clicks: 134 | Rank: 0 | Fav

I was initially recruited while I was in business school back in the late sixties by the National Security Agency, the nation's largest and least understood spy organization; but ultimately I...

Author: John Perkins (1945) | Theme: Affair | Clicks: 343 | Rank: 0 | Fav

I was doing things I was being patted on the back for. I was chief economist. I was doing things that Robert McNamara liked and so on

Author: John Perkins (1945) | Theme: Opinion | Clicks: 121 | Rank: 0 | Fav

I knew the jackals were closing in on him, and the next thing, his plane exploded with a tape recorder with a bomb in it.

Author: John Perkins (1945) | Theme: Opinion | Clicks: 133 | Rank: 0 | Fav

I felt guilty throughout the whole time, but I was seduced. The power of these drugs, sex, power, and money, was extremely strong for me.

Author: John Perkins (1945) | Theme: Time | Clicks: 168 | Rank: 0 | Fav

I come from a very old New England family, Calvinist, steeped in amazingly strong moral values. I think I, you know, I'm a good person overall, and I think my story really shows how this system and...

Author: John Perkins (1945) | Theme: Origin | Clicks: 172 | Rank: 0 | Fav

I believe the World Bank and other institutions can be turned around and do what they were originally intended to do, which is help reconstruct devastated parts of the world. Help genuinely help...

Author: John Perkins (1945) | Theme: Opinion | Clicks: 130 | Rank: 0 | Fav

House of Saud would agree to maintain the price of oil within acceptable limits to us, which they've done all of these years, and we would agree to keep the House of Saud in power as long as they...

Author: John Perkins (1945) | Theme: Miscellaneous | Clicks: 124 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Had Roosevelt been caught, we would have been in a lot of trouble. It would have been very embarrassing.

Author: John Perkins (1945) | Theme: Opinion | Clicks: 148 | Rank: 0 | Fav

But when 9/11 struck, I had a change of heart. I knew the story had to be told because what happened at 9/11 is a direct result of what the economic hit men are doing.

Author: John Perkins (1945) | Theme: Miscellaneous | Clicks: 92 | Rank: 0 | Fav
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